BadFisherman.11 wrote:
Wisdom from BadBobby...
I would never trade my friends, or my long-lived life for less white hair or a flat belly.
As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself and less critical.
I've become my own friend. I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie or for not making up my bed.
Nor for buying that stupid cement gecko that I didn't need but that looks so avant-garde on my patio.
I am entitled to extra treats, to be messy and to be extravagant.
I have seen too many of my dear friends leave this world before they understood the freedom that comes with aging.
Whose business is it if I choose to play on my computer until three am and then sleep until noon?
I will dance by myself to those wonderful songs from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s and if I need to weep over a lost love I will.
I will walk the beach in a swimsuit stretched over a bulging body and will dive into the waves with abandon if I so choose, despite the pitying looks from the young. They too will age.
I know I am sometimes forgetful, but some things may be better forgotten. But I do remember all the important things.
Over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not be broken when you lose a loved one, a friend, or when you see a child suffering or when you lose a loving pet?
But broken hearts give us strength, understanding and compassion. A never-broken heart is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.
I am blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair thin and turn white, and to have my youthful laughs forever etched deeply in my face.
As you age it's easier to be positive, you can care less what others think.
I don't question myself. I've earned the right to be wrong and I have got used to being old, it has set me free.
I like the person I have become.
I'm not going to live forever, but while I am here, I will live each day to the fullest and will eat ice cream every day
Wisdom from BadBobby... br br I would never trade... (
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Yes, that is wisdom.